Evangeline,
grand opera in four acts;
libretto by the composer
after the poem of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(29 December 1932, Chicago, excerpts)
[commissioned by the American Opera Company]
About Otto Luening
As well as being an important conductor of American opera and a pioneer of electronic and tape music, Luening composed one opera of his own, Evangeline. He conducted the premiere of, among other works,
Menotti's
The Medium.
